The Joy of Autism

New Website for Our Collaborative Dissertation

Our new website which collects the dissertation research is up for Neurodiversity in Relation: an artistic intraethnography. This work is a collaboration with my son, Adam Wolfond. It’s still a work in progress. Our new film will also soon be up...

Published Wed, Jul 03 2019 3:47 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Uncategorized

Autism to Inclusion (with and without captions)

A collaborative project made with Adam for Project Revision: Without Captions: With Captions: Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Tweet about it Tell a friend The post Autism to Inclusion (with and without captions) appeared first on...

Published Tue, Feb 14 2017 7:06 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Uncategorized

Autism Strategy Masks Societal Exclusion of Autistic Ontarians: Ottawa Citizen

Dr. Anne McGuire, Dr. Patty Douglas and myself have written an Op Ed piece today in The Ottawa Citizen. “It is dangerous to assume the problem is autism rather than society’s failure to recognize autism as a way of being which cannot simply...

Published Wed, Apr 20 2016 6:52 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: ABA

Where are we?

As a part of my duoethnography project with Adam, we are on Facebook for now. For many reasons, this seems like the safe space he can communicate and Adam and I will be presenting at our first conference together this fall. We have also started our new...

Published Tue, Jul 28 2015 12:08 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Adam, autism, Advocacy

What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Autism, School and Policy Musing

As Adam school closes, we have our Plan B which does involve his acceptance into a high school language arts community in a school devoted to social justice. Adam is in grade seven but will jump a grade. Some might say this is Ironic, no, for a child...

Published Wed, Apr 22 2015 6:48 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inclusion, Single Parenthood, school, Government Services, Human Rights, Institutionalization, Policy

Save The Merle Levine Academy

I rarely write a piece to save my son’s school, so hear me out: Due to dwindling enrollment, the Merle Levine Academy (MLA) is shutting its doors – unless more students attend. For autism and other learning disabilities, MLA has graduated...

Published Mon, Apr 20 2015 7:47 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: school

Advocating Otherwise: Problematizing Autism “Advocacy”

Read the work of Anne McGuire, now a Professor at U of T: Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Tweet about it The post Advocating Otherwise: Problematizing Autism “Advocacy” appeared first on Estée Klar . Read More...

Published Fri, Feb 27 2015 12:09 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: autism, Advocacy

Technology & Autism: We Still Need Acceptance

Adam is learning to become an independent typist so quickly now. While it makes me proud and happy for him because he wants to be independent (he has written so many times), it is really important to know that independence, for all of us, is an illusion...

Published Thu, Feb 05 2015 11:45 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Acceptance, communication, Parenting, Computing/iPad, Capital, Technology

My Review of Wretches & Jabberers now in The Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

My review of the film Wretches & Jabberers can now be read in the Canadian Journal of Disability Studies: CLICK HERE Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Tweet about it The post My Review of Wretches & Jabberers now in The Canadian...

Published Fri, Jan 23 2015 11:07 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Critical Disability Studies, Discrimination, communication, Film

Do You Think Your Thoughts Can Effect A Rat’s Behaviour?

Listen to this study on This American Life and consider the implication for how our thoughts and expectations can effect the lives of our children. Interesting implications and I expect many discussions among your friends about autism, expectations, education...

Published Fri, Jan 23 2015 10:40 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Behaviours, The Autism Genome Project

Autistic Mother Pride

This might be worked on some more… I’m writing today and flipping through my binder of writing. I found this unedited poem as part of a poetic essay I was attempting last year. Please note I am not well-versed in the art of poetry, but enjoy...

Published Thu, Jan 22 2015 8:18 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Poetry

The Art of Autism

This video by Alison Ludkin, among other pieces of artwork and writings, can be found on Art of Autism – a site bringing the work of artists labeled with autism online. I suppose I chose it for my blog as Adam takes the train everyday to school...

Published Tue, Jan 20 2015 7:32 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Art, Acceptance, Inspiration

Mental ability and the Discourse of Disease – another comment on a Globe & Mail article on “Treating the Brain and the Immune System in Tandem”

Again, the suggestion that mental illness – an umbrella term under which autism has also been thrust – is discussed in terms of biological disease. Says the Globe & Mail this morning: “It probably brings us closer to hammering in the...

Published Mon, Jan 19 2015 8:36 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inclusion, Ethics, Discrimination, Research, Media, Disability History, The Autism Genome Project, Newgenics, Critical Disability Theory, NEugenics, Science, Identity, What is Disability?, Intelligence, Accessibility, Eugenics, Institutionalization

Adam’s Disability Poem

A Disability Poem By: Adam Wolfond big stairs laugh at him.. Because hard to go up when you got just a wheelchair to get around in.. I think the long road will be hard for him to travel.. He feels like people dont understand him.. I understand him like...

Published Thu, Jan 15 2015 12:20 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Poetry

My Son’s Good News Journalism

Today I received a call from the school (a good call) that Adam was upset. After given the chance to type about why he was upset, he was talking about the news and of justice. He is beginning to learn about Martin Luther King. He wrote at school: “People...

Published Tue, Jan 13 2015 2:24 PM by Estée Klar

Filed under: communication, autism, Parenting, Inspiration

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